LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oil Supply Vessel Smit Lloyd 47
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...
A Tank Oil Steamer The San Ricardo
On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...
View of the Deck
The Samuel and Marie Par house, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat stationed at Salcombe, Devon in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ex-Belgian Tanker Laurent Meeus
OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.
the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...
The Admiralty Tanker C.632
Dungeness, Kent. At 3.57 on the morn- ing of the 17th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Dunge- ness and making water. When the life- boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 4.25 there...
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The crew eye-view 2008 in pictures
Hanna Nuuttila, RNLI Crew Member from New Quay, Cardiganshire, is the RNLI Photographer of the year 2008. Hanna’s winning entry shows Pwllheli’s Mersey class lifeboat Lilly and Vincent Anthony going to the aid of the yacht Galasma in force 8...
Category: Articles
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tanker Wave Master
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Master, of London, bound from the Persian Gulf, had asked for a boat to land the...
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E. (1)
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
The Oil Rig Neptune I
Scarborough and Teesmouth, Yorkshire - On i6th November, 1966 the Scarborough life-boat J. G. Graves of SJieffield and the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season were launched to stand by the oil rig Neptune I.
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